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Quotes from Islamic Political Thought: The Basic Concepts — William Montgomery Watt

1909–2006 Scotland

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In the early days of the Islamic empire the Christian inhabitants of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent were probably better off as dhimmis under Muslim Arab rulers than they had been under Byzantine Greeks.

Islamic Political Thought: The Basic Concepts (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Montgomery Watt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.